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One: the New Abundant Energy Revolution & the Power of You Ray Podder

This book is a mashup of breakthrough renewable energy technologies, networked socioeconomic trends emerging from the sharing economy and timeless spiritual philosophies to examine how we got here and where we may be headed. All articulated with real world stories from the perspective of someone who has spent a career lifetime studying network behavior and motivating positive actions through information design. Beyond addressing only the technical and political issues, the book also gets to the root behaviors that now drive our energy scarcity based economic activities. It proposes a new framework and vision that views our energy and economics from a systemic network perspective. Expressed through both researched and documented evidence and philosophical essays connecting them to the human motivations that matter. The core concepts in the book looks at our use of energy from what is possible now, and it goes something like this: 1. Make renewable energy into a free platform, using nano, bio, info and other emerging technologies. Too cheap to meter renewable energy technologies are real and available now, they just need accelerated innovation networks to make them accessible to all of us. 2. Make it ubiquitously accessible to all without wires like how we transmit data signals. Unprecedented achievements in transfer efficiency are here. From induction charging to nano technology based wireless electricity solutions can transform the renewable energy landscape if only we could design a business model that rewards users for sharing rather than charging them for consuming. 3. Accelerate innovation so no one has to depend on a job they don't like to make a living. Distributed and collaborative co-creation environments are transforming everything from crowdsourcing innovation to raising startup capital. The next iteration of global economic systems will be built from network constructs that redefine wealth, access and consumption. http://www.onetherevolution.com